The engagement was announced between Prince Leopold of Lobkowicz (b.9 September 1989) [son of Prince Stepan of Lobkowicz (b.1957) & his wife Barbara, nee Countess of Ursel (b.1957)] & Natacha de Hepcee [oldest daughter of Alain de Hepcee & his wife Edith, nee van Malcotte de Hessel] on 26 January.

Both are oldest children (Leopold of three, Natacha of four) and first ones to marry.

Prince Ernst August of Hanover (*1983), elder son of Ernst August, Prince of Hanover (*1954) and his first wife Chantal Hochuli (*1955), got engaged to Ekaterina Malysheva this year. They will marry next summer in Lower Saxony.

According to Point de Vue Prince Michel d'Orleans will marry next year Baroness Barbara von Posch-Pastor, daughter of Baron Eric von Posch-Pastor and Doña Silvia Rodriguez de Rivas, herself daughter of Joaquín Rodriguez de Rivas y de la Gandara, Count Castilleja de Guzmán.